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Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary (Canon) Lens
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Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary (Canon) Lens
£1,039.00
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| Product code | CA43643 |
|---|---|
| Barcode | 0085126745547 |
| Weight | 0000000000005 |
| Brand | Sigma |
20 reviews for Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary (Canon) Lens
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Patti Hays –
Exceptional lens for the price.
NessieGirl –
Worked perfectly straight out of the box.
MLM –
Fantastic lens that is great value!
Tracy Thames –
No regrets, fantastic lens! Birders dream.
shel –
Awesome
D courtman –
A superb lens which is a noticeable improvement, optically and design wise, on the old 150-500. I’m loving the light-weight and the speed of autofocus. Also purchased the USB dock, which allows access to custom settings, and is recommended.At several thousand pounds less than the equivalent lens from the likes of Canon this is a budget purchase that really delivers.
John Andrew Chant –
I bought this several months ago, & decided to give it a good try out before passing comment. Delivery was great & with the tracking code I knew exactly where my parcel was.First reactions – WOW that is a big lens…. I have it on my Canon 700D, & it works brilliantly. It’s solid, & very heavy, so for best results I use it on either a mono pod or a tripod. I have read that some people find it heavy on batteries, I don’t find this in my usage. I used it for a weekend at the Silverston F1 race, I had the image stabiliser & auto focus working all weekend taking over 2000 photos & only did 2 battery changes. Image quality is brilliant, & for the price well worth every penny I paid.I can find only one design fault. Its the lens hood. It’s a very big hood, & costs about £45 to replace. It fits with a twist lock, & is very poor. I have nearly lost it 2 or 3 time now. My solution was to fix it in place before going out & I add 3-4 strips of insulation tape to keep it in place.
Andrew Murray –
Naturally this is a big and heavy lens, and with the tripod mount it works extremely well in all lighting conditions as you would expect. The image quality is excellent and I’ve attached a photo of a robin with some zoomed in insets to give you an idea. If you look carefully you can see the reflection of my house against the blue sky in the Robins Eye. It’s that sharp. However, it doesn’t stop there. That image was taken hand held at the full 600mm zoom. Yes, the light was good, and I’m using a Canon 6D at 1000 ISO, but to me at least that is pretty impressive. The autofocus was almost instant and spot on. Being a big telephoto, you are having to be at least 2-3 meters from the subject for focus! The other feature I like is the manual focus override. If you have the time, and birds are not very patient usually, you can fine tune the autofocus manually.The second sample was taken at night indoors and also handheld. This was at maximum ISO and the autofocus does hunt around a bit, but not bad for hand held indoors at 600mm. There is a feature to set the autofocus range to basically near or far and that reduces the hunt time in low light. You can see here that at max aperture the depth of field is insanely narrow, so when doing wild life stuff it’s better to go up to F11 or so and have a higher ISO unless you have manged to squash your subject flat somehow.So the final picture was hand held at around 500mm with the lens resting on a railing to provide some extra stability. The bottom left inset shows the sharpness that can be delivered, the numbers on the blue container are perfectly readable. Again this was at 1000 ISO.I was a bit worried about getting this in my backpack, but the solid zoom cover is reversible and it all fits in very nicely after a bit of reorganisation.I’ve not bothered with the USB tuner. The results are amazing without it. But I can see how it might be useful.Finally, don’t bother with a 1.4x converter. The images are better if you just crop! Sigma do seem to make very good lenses! My Sigma 12-24mm ultra-wide angle is also excellent!
StevieLD –
Waited and waited to buy a great lens for bird watching. It was between the Sigma and the Tamron and I took the plunge with this model and am super happy with the results after 3 full days of birding. I am so glad I stumped up the cash, it’s been nothing but joy learning the basics and I look forward to more trips out. My only advice would be to just buy the lens now and start enjoying time out and about. Attachments are examples of raw files with no editing.
Beto Villa –
I am very keen on wildlife photography and have been using a Canon 100-400 L lens with my Canon 7D MkII. I hadn’t been that happy with the reach of just 400mm and also that the images seemed to be quite soft even after tuning the camera to the lens. After some investigation, I decided that the Sigma 150-600 was the lens to get and I am so glad that I did. As we travel quite a bit, I didn’t want the extra weight of the Sport version and so after reading many reviews decided on the Contemporary. I fitted the lens to my 7D MkII and achieved perfect results without any lens compensation in the camera. My only very small issue is the difficulty to turn the zoom ring round from 150mm to 600mm once you have found your subject. I’m sure that I will get used to this in time. All in all a wonderful piece of kit for the excellent price.